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Documenting the landslide onto the D&RG tracks in Eagle River Canyon. The numbers on the photo correspond to the descriptions below.
Verso: "1. Compressor house; 2. Tram landing; 3. New House tunnel station on tram; I am working on a level with the New House Tunnel, but about ½ miles in the Mtn. Notice how steep the tram is; it's steeper yet before it reaches Gilman." [written by Tom Knight]
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A panoramic photograph taken from the Beck family yard as the last Union Pacific freight train to travel through Red Cliff rolls by. The tracks are visible with the Pine St. viaduct at far left. Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church is right of the viaduct and a small group of people are watching the train from the churchyard. August 1997
"Union Pacific has pulled the last of its cross-country freight trains from the Tennessee Pass route, which...
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A panoramic photograph taken from the Beck family yard, waiting for the last Union Pacific train to travel through Red Cliff. The tracks are visible with the Pine St. viaduct at far left. Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church is right of the viaduct.
"Union Pacific has pulled the last of its cross-country freight trains from the Tennessee Pass route, which averaged 12 trains a day through Eagle County. ... Union Pacific, as a part of its acquisition...
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A panoramic photograph taken from the Beck family yard as the last Union Pacific train to travel through Red Cliff rolls by. The tracks are visible with the Pine St. viaduct at far left. Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church is right of the viaduct and a small group of people are watching the train from the churchyard.
"Union Pacific has pulled the last of its cross-country freight trains from the Tennessee Pass route, which averaged 12 trains...
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A panoramic photograph taken from the Beck family yard as the last Union Pacific train to travel through Red Cliff rounds the curve. The tracks are visible with the Pine St. viaduct at far left. Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church is right of the viaduct.
"Union Pacific has pulled the last of its cross-country freight trains from the Tennessee Pass route, which averaged 12 trains a day through Eagle County. ... Union Pacific, as a part of...
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A panoramic photograph taken from the Beck family yard as the last Union Pacific train to travel through Red Cliff passes under the viaduct. The tracks are visible with the Pine St. viaduct at far left. Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church is right of the viaduct.
"Union Pacific has pulled the last of its cross-country freight trains from the Tennessee Pass route, which averaged 12 trains a day through Eagle County. ... Union Pacific, as...
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Man in suit and tie standing in front of the lettuce shed filled with crates, on the east railway spur of the Avon Depot. Railroad tracks in foreground. Inscription :"10/15/28."
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The righted locomotive, on the rails, following the Ice Train wreck. Cables are attached to the front of the locomotive for towing. Onlookers are at the side of the locomotive and there is debris in the background.
"Ice Train runs away on grade below Pando," Eagle Valley Enterprise Jan. 6, 1928 p.1
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Looking south along the railroad tracks at Belden towards the Belden mill. Destroyed cribbing on the left and debris on the tracks in the background.
110) Loren Arthur
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Loren Arthur poses on the railroad tracks in Eagle, Colorado, in his World War I uniform. The photograph is dated July 4th, 1919 and his pressed, clean uniform suggests this may have been for a parade or other related event.
111) Lover's Leap
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Lover's Leap rock formation which marks the access to Red Cliff. Hoist on the top of the formation indicates the construction period for the Red Cliff arch bridge on Highway 24 (1938-1939). Railroad tracks in foreground.
[Red Cliff Bridge construction photo 2]
112) Lundgrens & Lindgren
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Left to right: Minnie Lundgren, Mr. Lindgren, Mrs. Lindgren, Mrs. Shogren (sp?), Mrs. Lundgren. "Gypsum, Colo 1914"
113) MacDonald Knight
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Caption: "Don at Eagle Canyon at Belden, prospecting"
MacDonald Knight is standing next to the railroad tracks and in front of some cribbing at Belden in the Eagle River Canyon.
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"Big Mallard Engine going toward Pass at Red Cliff Ball Park, Colo 1917" from Alda Borah. (1919 is crossed out, replaced with 1917.) Trains of all kinds had trouble with Colorado mountain passes, eventually leading to the elimination of many routes over and through the the Rockies. Mallard engines were steam-powered locomotives developed in Europe and later versions hold the speed record for this category of engine.
Alda was concerned about the...
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The Belden mill and tram in Eagle Canyon, below Gilman. Railroad tracks at bottom right in photo. Taken after the 1919 landslide.
117) Mr. Homan
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Fletcher Bliss Homan standing at the Wolcott station where he was station agent
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Mr. Whitney and Jack Cockram standing next to a handcar at Kent. Inscription reads: "Heck."
119) Mrs. Merrill
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Mrs. Merrill [Elnora Green Merrill] walking away from the camera at Wolcott, crossing the railroad tracks. The sign on the building at left says "Saloon." Charles Merrill, Elnora's husband, owned the Wolcott Mercantile company store.
120) Narrow Gauge
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Construction crew working with narrow gauge track on a bridge built for standard gauge track.
